Protecting every citizen’s right to vote.
Together we can strengthen our democracy by reducing barriers to voting and ensuring fair elections.
Who We Are
Citizens for the Vote is a community of energized citizens who pool our money and time to support organizations devoted to advocating for and protecting fair and free elections. We provide quarterly grants to non-profits who support election policies and voting rights through litigation, policy, advocacy and public education.
2024 Grantees to Date
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Mi Familia Vota
MULTI-STATE
Mi Familia Vota is fighting for a future where Latino voices shape and advance policies that promote the health, safety, and prosperity of Latino communities across the country. Citizens donated $25,000 in May 2024.
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Michigan Voices
MICHIGAN
Michigan Voices provides the scaffolding and infrastructure needed for communities across Michigan to collectivize and scale up their civic engagement, voter participation, and issue-advocacy efforts. Citizens donated $15,000 in March 2024.
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Democracy North Carolina
NORTH CAROLINA
Democracy North Carolina’s mission is to help North Carolinians achieve meaningful pro-democracy reform and promote citizen ownership of our government. Citizens donated $25,000 in May 2024.
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Arizona Native Vote
ARIZONA
Arizona Native Vote is dedicated to building tribal and rural political power. Our team is building a bench of local year-round community organizers and leaders that work together to increase voter registration and civic engagement. Citizens donated $25,000 in March 2024.
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Voting Access for All Coalition
MICHIGAN
Voting Access for All Coalition represents those who have been incarcerated and anyone who feels voting is empowering and powerful. We know that any barrier to voting is voter suppression that we must confront. Citizens donated $15,000 in April 2024.
How Citizens Works
Community
We meet quarterly (sometimes remotely and sometimes in person) to discuss issues central to preserving democratic institutions, to plan and uplift, then select 501c(3)’s whose missions we want to support. We pitch and discuss organizations working directly on critical voting issues, and then we choose which organization to financially support.
Funding
We contribute our collective resources to organizations who are positively impacting communities and/or are working to change policies and election outcomes. In the past few years, we provided quarterly grants ranging from $25,000 - $45,000, focusing on organizations mobilizing the vote on the ground in states pivotal to the election. Since our inception, Citizens for Truth has granted more than $500,000 to non-profits making a difference on the ground.
We invite any contribution level and encourage members to contribute generously. Contributions range from $1,000 to $10,000 with an average donation of $5,000 per family. All contributions are made into a donor advised fund at the East Bay Community Foundation, which distributes our aggregated funds to the chosen organization. Donations are tax-deductible.
Sidecars
Because we are focused on funding 501(c)(3)’s to maintain our tax deductible status, we cannot make contributions to political campaigns, PACs and other types of partisan organizations.
To allow members to bring our scale to these campaigns crucial to electoral politics, we’ve created a separate, informal funding structure we call Sidecars. It’s simple: when individual Citizens make a contribution to a political candidate, PAC or 501(c)(4), they alert the rest of the group via email with the Subject line: Sidecar! If other members want to contribute, they are invited to do so.